Friday, March 22, 2002

Why Microsoft Wins

Did you notice how Microsoft is hiring the industry top guns? They just hired Herb Sutter, the last editor of the now defunct C++ Report and the author of Exceptional C++. Before that they hired Don Box, one of the authors of SOAP and a COM guru. And last year they hired Stan Lippman, the previous editor of C++ Report.

At the same time the employee list of Microsoft Research reads like Who's Who in Functional Programming.

So next time Sun, Netscape and others start whining about Microsoft eating their lunch, they should instead ask themselves why they aren't investing in the best people money can buy.

   10:50 AM